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Work with the Kanban Board

The backlog items are represented with story cards. The team members pull the story cards with higher priority from the backlog to the Kanban Board. When the tasks assigned to the backlog item are completed, the story card is marked as Ready to Pull. The story cards are then pulled to the next lane by the team members.

For example, Michael moves five user stories with the highest priority to the Planned lane. The project goes through the following phases on the Kanban Board:

• The developers pull three story cards in the prioritized order from the Planned lane to the Development lane.
• As the Planned lane now has only two story cards, Robert moves three more story cards from the backlog to the Planned lane. The number of story cards in the lane is maintained at the WIP limit.
• Once the developers have completed their tasks, they mark the story cards as Ready to Pull.
• The QA engineers pull these story cards to the Test lane and start working on them.
• Once the testing is completed, they mark it as Ready to Pull.
• The project manager can move the Ready to Pull story cards from the Test lane to the Completed lane.

Every time developers or QA engineers needs user stories to work on, they move Ready to Pull story cards from the previous lane. The cycle continues until you complete all the user stories in the backlog.

Follow these steps:

1. Click Agile, and from Kanban Tracking, click Kanban Board.
2. Select the product, release, and the Kanban Board name from the drop-down lists.
3. Complete any of the following tasks:
   1. Pull a backlog item from the Backlog Queue to the Kanban Board.
   2. If you have completed the tasks on the backlog item, mark it as Ready to Pull.
   3. If you are waiting for a backlog item to work on, move a user story or issue marked Ready to Pull from the previous lane.